Hypertext Webster Gateway: "monitory"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Monitory \Mon"i*to*ry\, a. [L. monitorius.]
Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.
Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory
and instructive. --L'Estrange.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Monitory \Mon"i*to*ry\, n.
Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from
an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
monitory
adj : serving to warn; "shook a monitory finger at him"; "an
exemplary jail sentence" [syn: {admonitory}, {cautionary},
{exemplary}, {warning(a)}]
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